From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nathan Scott Subject: Re: quota woes Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:05:32 +1000 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030812230532.GB743@frodo> References: <3F36A2EC.EC77B3FF@us.ibm.com> <20030812122320.GA31282@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Steve French (IBM LTC)" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from zok.SGI.COM ([204.94.215.101]:9688 "EHLO zok.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271230AbTHLXKr (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2003 19:10:47 -0400 To: Jan Kara Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030812122320.GA31282@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 02:23:20PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > Hello, hi Jan, > > Is there another source of quota tools that calls the newer quota > > interface that would not require validating mount's local device numbers > > before invoking the kernel quotactl interface?" > The quota tools on SF are the latest ones. And currently they are > validating the device because kernel interface requires a device (at > least if we are speaking about standard VFS quota - XFS is a bit > different case). The XFS commands all require block special devices; the one command that doesn't is Q_SYNC (one of the standard VFS commands) because it can be used to sync all filesystems quota files at once, iirc. cheers. -- Nathan